From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Brownell Subject: Re: [PATCH] enc28j60: Fix sporadic packet loss (correction) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 23:04:20 -0800 Message-ID: <200812022304.20661.david-b@pacbell.net> References: <20081202085947.GB24490@diamond.tkos.co.il> <200812021444.03225.david-b@pacbell.net> <20081203062213.GB3361@tarshish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: spi-devel-general-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, Claudio Lanconelli , Shachar Shemesh , Network development list To: Baruch Siach Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20081203062213.GB3361@tarshish> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: spi-devel-general-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Baruch Siach wrote: > Apparently I haven't explained myself clear enough. The (partial) driver that > Peter Pearse has posted[1] to LAKL is for the PL080 DMA controller. This > driver is ARM specific, so LAKL seems to be reasonable place even though the > driver itself is under drivers/amba (which is ARM specific as well). Actually AMBA has generalized past being ARM-specific. It's just a chip-internal bus, and the silicon-IP end of ARM Ltd has been successful enough that vendors use it with non-ARM CPUs too. Example: you'll notice that drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c was first used on a non-ARM system; it's a Synopsys DesignWare (dw) DMA controller (dmac) for AMBA2, with AHB and APB. So let me suggest LKML, with an FYI to the ARM list, and putting that driver in drivers/dma instead. :) But yes, now I see what you mean: discrete DMA and SPI drivers. - Dave > My Synopsys DesignWare SPI master driver will, when complete, depend on this > DMA controller driver, that's not in the mainline (yet). > > > Post it to the SPI list instead. ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/